COLLOQUIUM “Seiscentistas Quatrocentões: for a review of Luso-Brazilian Baroque Literature”

The passage of the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of the satirical poet João Sucarelo Claramonte (*1619 †1668), known as the poet of the nonsense of Porto, serves as a pretext for an attempt to take stock of the Luso-Brazilian Baroque. After the works of Maria de Lurdes Belchior and Vítor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva, a series of important works have appeared in the last two decades – almost always in the form of dissertations and theses – on the authors that Teófilo Braga referred to as sixteenth centuryThese include Jerónimo Baía, D. Feliciana de Milão, Gregório de Matos, Jorge da Câmara, D. Tomás de Noronha, António da Fonseca Soares, Barbosa Bacelar, Gonçalo Soares da Franca or João Sucarelo Claramonte, often contemplating more theoretical issues surrounding the literature of the time.

Despite this, the authors mentioned are only a small sample of the considerable number of poets who, as Aguiar e Silva points out, appear “in the numerous songbooks and miscellanies” of the 16th century. The poetic production of the Portuguese Baroque still lacks a real survey, study and systematization. Some authors’ works have already been fully or partially recorded and published, but many others remain forgotten, and there is a risk that they will be lost without clarifying essential questions, such as whether there was a baroque that was characteristically autochthonous.

We therefore think that this is the time to review the scenario, giving the floor to those who have been working in this area.

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